{"id":920,"date":"2015-12-02T16:14:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T12:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=920"},"modified":"2015-12-02T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T12:14:29","slug":"christmas-specials-to-watch-in-december-or-christmas-wont-actually-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Christmas specials to watch in December (or Christmas won\u2019t actually come)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol start=\"1\">\n<li><i>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Frosty the Snowman<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Frosty Returns<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>How the Grinch Stole Christmas<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>A Garfield Christmas<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are many other good ones, and I\u2019ll probably watch those as well, but these are the ones that definitely have to happen every year. I have each of these on a VHS tape I\u2019ve been plugging into my VCR every December since 1997. Yup, they\u2019re all on one tape I recorded off TV that year. I\u2019ve enjoyed reliving my childhood this year with my son, who now understands a little bit about the holiday (or can at least recognize Santa or a snowman).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also introduced him to the lost art of fast-forwarding through commercials when watching old VHS tapes on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Charlie Brown Christmas Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Frosty the Snowman Frosty Returns How the Grinch Stole Christmas A Garfield Christmas &nbsp; There are many other good ones, and I\u2019ll probably watch those as well, but these are the ones &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}